Word: mildly
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However, Moore may suffer from mild rust through the first few games. He has missed the final two weeks of preseason training with a shoulder injury, though is expected to play in tomorrow's opener against Brown...
WASHINGTON: Gray Davis and Al Gore are going to get along great. The new governor of California -- its first Democratic one in 16 years -- is a mild-mannered, nuts-and-bolts pol just like Al. He's now in charge of redistricting California after the 2000 census. And he just happens to have 52 electoral votes to throw around. "Now, whoever wins the 2000 Democratic primary gets to glom onto Davis," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "instead of having to spend a lot of time actually campaigning in California." Not to mention that after the Democrats' surprising success Tuesday...
...Mild-mannered mom and first-term incumbent Patty Murray, a Democrat, is the antithesis of the modern-day celebrity politician. She doesn't look like one, she doesn't talk like one, she doesn't even care to be one. "I didn't run to be a politician," she said last week after a labor rally in Spokane...
...jarring example of the changing face of global diplomacy, GERI HALLIWELL, formerly Ginger Spice, last week embarked on her career as a United Nations goodwill ambassador with a can-do spirit and a string of mild expletives. "I'm damn well going to use my fame positively!" the newly decolletage-free pop star exclaimed at a U.N. press conference. So while her former bandmates tour the world, Halliwell, 26, will preach to it. She'll stump for the U.N. Population Fund, promoting family-planning issues in developing countries that may not know enough about birth control but are surely familiar...
...perpetrator? A mild-mannered sixth-grade girl. The weapon? Dave's Insanity Gourmet Hot Sauce. According to school officials, the offending student offered the sauce to her unsuspecting classmates during morning snack time. After the sauce worked its gastrointestinal magic, paramedics were called to the scene. Six pupils went home to convalesce and watch cartoons. One girl was treated by the school nurse. Eight others reported stomachaches but decided to tough it out and stay in school...